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The Ruamano Project: Raising Expectations, Realising Community Aspirations and Recognising Gifted Potential in Maori Boys
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Webber, Melinda; Riley, Tracy; Sylva, Katrina; Scobie-Jennings, Emma – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2020
When gifted Maori students feel they belong and find their realities reflected in the curriculum, conversations and interactions of schooling, they are more likely to engage in programmes of learning and experience greater school success. This article reports on a teacher-led project called the Ruamano Project, which investigated whether Maker and…
Descriptors: Expectation, Academically Gifted, Males, Pacific Islanders
Discovering and Developing the College Potential of Disadvantaged High School Youth; A Report of the Second Year of a Longitudinal Study on the College Discovery and Development Program.
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Brody, Lawrence; And Others – 1968
This report examines the College Discovery and Development Program, which seeks to identify underachieving disadvantaged high school students with college potential, to increase their academic motivation, to improve their scholastic achievement, to develop their acceptance of college study as a realistic expectation for themselves, and to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, College Preparation, Compensatory Education
Discovering and Developing the College Potential of Disadvantaged High School Youth; A Report of the Third Year of a Longitudinal Study on the College Discovery and Development Program.
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Brody, Lawrence; And Others – 1969
This report examines the College Discovery and Development Program, which seeks (1) to identify underachieving disadvantaged high school students with college potential, (2) to increase their academic motivation, (3) to improve their scholastic achievement, (4) to develop their acceptance of college study as a realistic expectation for themselves,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Achievement Gains, College Preparation
Breaking through Assumptions about Low-Income, Minority Gifted Students
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Swanson, Julie Dingle – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2006
This article describes Project Breakthrough, federally funded as a demonstration through the Javits Gifted and Talented Education Act. Project staff worked for 3 years with three elementary schools in South Carolina to train teachers in the use of language arts and science curriculum developed by the Center for Gifted Education at the College of…
Descriptors: Minority Group Children, Academically Gifted, Low Income Groups, Elementary School Students
Project START: Using a Multiple Intelligences Model in Identifying and Promoting Talent in High-Risk Students. Research Monograph 95136.
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Callahan, Carolyn M.; Tomlinson, Carol A.; Moon, Tonya R.; Tomchin, Ellen M.; Plucker, Jonathan A. – 1995
This monograph describes Project START (Support To Affirm Rising Talent), a three-year collaborative research effort to develop and apply gifted identification procedures based on Howard Gardner's (1983) theory of multiple intelligences. Specifically, the study attempted to: (1) develop identification procedures; (2) identify high-potential…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academic Achievement, Classroom Observation Techniques, Cultural Differences
Academic Challenge Program: Evaluation Report.
Harty, Harold; And Others – 1986
The evaluation report by Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation (Columbus, Indiana) describes findings concerning what works and what does not work in the Academic Challenge Program, a gifted and talented education program at the elementary and middle school levels. A corollary purpose of the report is to share the evaluation plan itself,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Admission Criteria, Affective Objectives, Critical Thinking